Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Bullet Journal (BuJo) started as “an analog system to track the past, organize the present and plan for the future.” Within a few years, it grew to be a community of people who use it as a tool for planning, organizing, and adjusting the methodology to their life habits and routines. What is the Bullet Journal System?

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OCTOBER 28, 2016

When it comes to choosing a Content Management System to build and manage your website, the choices available might seem a little daunting, especially to a novice just trying to get their feet wet. And that same community is constantly on guard for security flaws, viruses with component parts etc. Money Talks.

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Non Profit Quarterly

APRIL 20, 2023

Some users are migrating to new platforms, like Post, or to decentralized, open-source services, like Mastodon. Other marginalized networks, such as Black Twitter and Disability Twitter, are choosing to remain on the platform, where they’ve developed strong community networks that they can’t easily replicate.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2011

The updates introduce Semantic Analysis and Natural Language Processing (NLP) capabilities to the Social Actions API and begin to connect Social Actions to the wider Linked Open Data community. It turns out I was at the epicenter of the Linked Open Data community. Why aren’t you publishing this data in RDF?”.

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NTEN

MARCH 20, 2012

We've all experienced videos, blogs, photos, or topics "going viral" online before our eyes - the number of views increases, our Facebook timeline fills with reposts of the story, or a hashtag rises up the trending charts. Tendenci Released as Open Source by Schipul. Hot Button Issues at SXSW: Kony and Homeless Hotspots.

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Tech Soup

JULY 28, 2014

It includes a CPU, graphics processor, RAM, USB port (multiple ports in later models), audio and video ports, and an Ethernet port (later models only), and runs a Linux-based operating system. They tend to include other useful components like an SD card with an operating system pre-installed. Power source. 256 MB SDRAM.

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Tech Soup

JULY 8, 2013

San Francisco, CA: Open Source Tech Can Improve Your City & Your Nonprofit, & A Conversation w/ SAP. Wellington, New Zealand: net2welly 1st birthday meetup: potluck + Beth Kanter on video. Portland, OR: Selecting and Implementing the Right Volunteer Management System. Wednesday, July 10. That’s all for now.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 24, 2011

People who reading content on their smartphones or tablets will not be consuming text heavy information – it has to brief text and visual or videos. Michael’s guest post explains more: A Better Way to Produce Reports Nonprofit Annual Reports , guest post by Michael Hoffman, See3 Communications. What how to make that efficient?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 31, 2008

WebHuddle is free, and open source. There does seem to be an active (but small) user community. They now have a community edition, and there seems to be an active community of users. This is what I want: The community edition of DimDim that integrates with an open source VOIP system and Moodle.

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NTEN

MARCH 6, 2015

Every year we are wowed by the winners of the DoGooder National Video Awards and this year was no exception. This year''s prize goes to Mifos X , an open technology platform for financial inclusion that provides the core functionality needed to deliver financial services to the poor and unbanked.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 5, 2013

Examples of open government data reuse in US by private corporations and nonprofits is also highlighted and a webinar to help those that also want to use it is being hosted this month. Floodlight, an interesting data storytelling tool for communities is also featured. Open Government Data. Data Won the U.S. Data Storytelling.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 3, 2009

The thing that is prompting this post is the little storm about the security metric that we used to try and get a handle on the security of the 4 different systems we reviewed. You might think that comparing four different open source packages that, in essence, do pretty the same thing (in a broad sense) would be a cakc walk.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 1, 2013

This is an independent, community-nominated, community-voted event created in 2012 that aims to publicly recognize the excellent individuals and organizations that have maximized the capabilities of Drupal open source content management system. Nonprofit Video Production Tips.

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Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Since then Giving Tuesday has grown into a global movement, inspiring millions of people to get involved in doing good in their communities. Check out this video to learn more: The Boys and Girls Club of Indianapolis reached 101% of their fundraising goal on Giving Tuesday 2020 by using Qgiv’s platform.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 20, 2008

MPower Open , an enterprise CRM, is both open source, and has great open APIs. Convio keeps drinking the “open&# coolaid (although they have a ways to go.) Don’t forget to vote for the DoGooder TV Nonprofit Video Awards. There will be way more on this in later posts. Client-(pc-only) server?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 20, 2009

Learn about both community-driven and corporate tech initiatives that help you make a difference in your own communities, and hear about the opportunities and challenges of taking on cutting edge technology tools. The past, present, and future of nonprofits is community. How do we set the backends of our systems take advantage?

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

This proved to the Ushahidi team that their tool would be valuable to communities around the world. Since then, the platform (which is open source ) has been modified for use in South Africa (mapping xenophobic violence), DR Congo , Vote Report India (to monitor the recent local elections) and more.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 13, 2012

Since reading the The Networked Nonprofit a couple of years ago, I’ve been on the lookout for nonprofits that typify the new breed of nonprofit organization that is agile, open, community driven, hyper-connected and extremely effective. We use nonprofit, open-source Drupal to manage our main website.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2009

Socialbrite is here to offer articles, videos, resources and tutorials on how to take command of all this Web 2.0 Matt Mullenweg and the entire WordPress development community for their open source code and awesome set of plug-ins. And a thank-you to the coders at Intense Debate for the commenting system we settled on.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

Whether we look at mapping tools, fundraising, or missing person systems, the social media response to the January earthquakes in Haiti all leverage the powerful technology we can hold in our hands: our mobile phones. This proved to the Ushahidi team that their tool would be valuable to communities around the world. How can we do that?

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 27, 2011

Most interestingly, its technology will be shared almost in an open-source manner to increase the impact and reach. Rickshaw Bank is a project by the Centre for Rural Development that disrupts the existing system whereby rickshaw pullers do not earn a living wage and cannot build equity in their work.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 27, 2006

Most recently, Michael Gilbert pointed me to a very good whitepaper by Nancy White about blogs and community. She has some interesting things to say about the emergent properties of blogging communities. I think the community aspects of blogging were somewhat unexpected. It’s worth a read. Which is just fine.)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

An Anti-Genocide Community: Building the Political Will to End Genocide [link]. Aspiration Social Source Commons [link]. Big Brothers Big Sisters Agency Information Management (AIM) System [link]. Open Source, Open Standards Video [link]. Addressing Africa???s FamilyFarmed.org [link]. Maps 2.0 ???

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Tech Soup

APRIL 13, 2012

Since reading the The Networked Nonprofit a couple of years ago, I’ve been on the lookout for nonprofits that typify the new breed of nonprofit organization that is agile, open, community driven, hyper-connected and extremely effective. We use nonprofit, open-source Drupal to manage our main website.

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NTEN

MARCH 16, 2011

The 2011 Nonprofit Technology Conference kicks off tomorrow and one of the key elements to Community Day is the Science Fair. This opening reception provides an opportunity to network with nptech professionals while checking out nearly 100 exhibirors showing off their latest and greatest offerings to the nonprofit sector.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 17, 2007

communities, from LinkedIn to Flickr to … Amazon.com, keeps track of your contacts content. Or that a certain nonprofit Executive Director Dugg a post about starting a video game company? I’m hoping that Spock ends up in the dead pool , but who knows. Then, for the creepy part. I joined Spokeo. Be Helpful.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 8, 2008

The final program is done through a combination of an open submission and community voting process with staff and advisory board feedback. The panel picker process just opened - so you have until August 29th to vote for as many panels as you think are worthy of being on the program or not. With snacks!

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

The project was originally funded by Microsoft for the Transforming Communities of Practice grant. The Hacker Helper project is closely aligned with our NetSquared vision of bringing communities together to solve social problems – including nonprofits, beneficiaries, activists, technologists, concerned citizens. The Sunrise.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 24, 2009

If you would like to watch the video from the session, click on this link for the Social Innovation Forum. You will have to fill out a form, as if you were registering for a live webcast, to access the video. Michele Jolin , Senior Advisor for Social Innovation for the Domestic Policy Council at The White House was the panel moderator.

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Forj

DECEMBER 29, 2017

There are other projects underway to solve it, including the MedBiquitous Activity Report standard and (in a sense) the Mozilla Open Badges project. As Mark Iafrate of Accredible , an evangelist for badges, has suggested, these standards could continue to exist in a layered system that rests atop distributed ledgers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 29, 2008

   They need everyone's help to get the word out on Twitter and the effort will only work if a lots of people are using the system. s Social Media Desk, Independence Year Foundation, The Center for Community Change, Student PIRGs, PBS, Video the Vote, Election Suppression Wiki, Women Donors Network, and Demos. 

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

Here's a nice collection of links from the NTEN blog with good footnotes that includes a pointer to the ChicagoTechnology Cooperative , a group comprised of consultants, technicians, developers, and designers, with extensive experience serving the unique needs of nonprofit and community-based organizations. Are there others? Global NpTech.

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Nonprofits Source

DECEMBER 5, 2022

With a nonprofit-specific content management system (CMS), or website builder, your organization won’t have to build a website from the ground up. Or, consider creating a video that features your nonprofit’s staff and volunteers discussing your nonprofit’s mission and how you’re working to achieve your goals. . Color contrast.

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Care2

OCTOBER 20, 2007

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60)

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 11, 2014

Mobile devices are breaking down the barriers to direct connections to staff, volunteers, clients, partners, communities, and the general public. Because its all open source, they could then engage any technology group of their choice to customize it to their particular needs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

NpTech Community. Open Content for Nonprofits Open Content discussion continues with some comments from Michael Stein (east coast) about Laura Quinn's post last friday. "Laura is not creating media, as the Social Source blog suggests one ought, to lure you into her site. And some background reading. Freecharity.org.uk

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Cloud 4 Good

APRIL 7, 2021

For nonprofit organizations, Salesforce.org and its community of nonprofit users have worked together to take the concepts of opportunity management and customer cultivation to the nonprofit space with the Nonprofit Success Pack (NPSP). The CDC Foundation Now is the time for our collective communities and organizations to band together.

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